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Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, has been named to the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) Polar Research Vessel Committee, which will plan the progress for a new Polar Research Vessel (PRV) for the U.S. Antarctic Program.

Associate Professor of History Chad Williams recently presented his work at several recent major national conferences. On Oct. 1 Williams chaired and participated in a roundtable discussion on “African Americans and World War I in History, Memory and Culture,” at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Raleigh, N.C.

Award-winning author Marilyn Chin will read from her work on Thursday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.

Hamilton Makes Art 2, an online and live auction of works of art by Kirkland and Hamilton College alumni, is currently under way. Half of all proceeds will benefit Hamilton’s Bicentennial Initiatives Arts Facilities Project which will fund the construction of a new museum, theatre and studio art facility.

Nine Hamilton College students have been selected as recipients of the Class of 1979 Student Travel Award. The award, established by the alumni of Hamilton's Class of 1979, offers financial assistance to certain outstanding Hamilton students who wish to pursue extensive research projects in different parts of the world.

The 20 residents of the Woollcott House, also known as the CoOp, celebrated Thanksgiving on Nov. 14 with a collaborative feast where each resident made a dish for this yearly tradition.

Nine Hamilton students have received grants from the Steven Daniel Smallen Memorial Fund. The Fund aims to encourage student creativity among Hamilton students by providing funds for projects displaying originality, expressiveness and imagination.

Hamilton students have the opportunity to establish meaningful relationships with local nonprofit organizations beginning in their first semester of college through a pilot program operated by the Hamilton Community Opportunity and Outreach Project (COOP).

A new housing policy at Hamilton College allows students of any biological sex, gender identity or expression to live together in the same room on campus.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was a respondent in a discussion of Dr. Brian Johnson's “The Psychoanalysis of a Man with Heroin Dependence: Implications for Neurobiological Theories of Attachment and Drug Craving," published in Neuropsychoanalysis, 2010, 12 (2) pp. 207-215. The discussion took place on Nov. 17 at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.